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envenuto Cellini
1500 – 1571, Florentine
Autobiography
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by George Bull
With enviable powers of invective and
an irrepressible sense of humor, Cellini
provides an unrivaled portrait of the
manners and morals of the Italy of
Michelangelo and the Medici.
496 pp. 978-0-14-044718-7 $15.00
Miguel de Cervantes
saavedra
1547 – 1615, spanish
The Portable Cervantes
Edited and Translated with an Introduction
by Samuel Putnam
This collection includes an acclaimed
translation of Don Quixote, substantially
complete, the two “Exemplary Novels”
Rinconete and Cortadillo and Man of
Glass, as well as Cervantes’s extraordinary
farewell to life from The Troubles of
Persiles and Sigismunda.
864 pp. 978-0-14-015057-5 $18.00
Don Quixote
Translated with Notes by
John Rutherford and an Introduction by
Roberto González Echevarría
Winner of the Premio Valle Inclàn
translation prize
Voted the Greatest Book of All Time
by the Nobel Institute
The adventures of Cervantes’s idealistic
knight-errant and his simple but astute
squire, Sancho Panza, is not only a
hilarious parody of the romances of
chivalry but an exploration of the
relationship between the real and the
illusionary.
1,070 pp. 978-0-14-243723-0 $13.00
Miguel de Cervantes saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in Alcalé de Henares, Spain, in 1547.
As a young man serving in the Spanish wars against the Ottoman Empire, he
was captured by the Barbary pirates and sent into slavery in Algeria in 1575.
After many attempts at escape, he was finally ransomed in 1580, an act that
reduced his family to poverty. Returning to Madrid, Cervantes entered public
service (including a stint commandeering supplies for the Spanish Armada)
and was so ill-suited to the job that he was jailed for gross irregularities in his
accounts. Although his first novel, La Galatea, was written in 1585, and he wrote
poetry and drama (only two of his thirty plays survive), it was not until the
publication of Don Quixote in 1605 that Cervantes gained fame as a writer. An
immediate success in his native country, the novel soon became a favorite abroad.
The intricate, multi-layered structure of the novel, and Cervantes’s brilliant
exploration of the relationship between art and life, had tremendous impact on
the development of the modern novel; the works of writers from Fielding and
Smollett to Twain, Dostoyevsky, and even Kafka, all bear traces of the influence
of Cervantes’s masterpiece.
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